My name is Susanne Schuberth and I live in Fürth/Bavaria. I am a 57 years old married mother who writes primarily about her deeper experiences with God and Jesus Christ. Sometimes I write poems, then articles, or alternatively, though rarely, comments on other blogs, just as the Holy Spirit leads me.
“The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” (Jn 3:8 ESV)
This Scripture describes my manner of writing which I never plan beforehand. I try to do all things as God inspires me and then I forget about them until He reminds me of having written several entries. This also means that there are times of dry inspirationlessness where the deeper sources of the spirit, which are unknown to me, are explored and enlarged by God. Therefore, if you want to read my blogs more often, you can be sure that you cannot be sure that I will publish on a regular basis. 😉
Furthermore, I am an outdoorswoman who engages in all manners of sports. Mainly, I go biking, walking and swimming as often as my time and my body allow. Since life can be hard at times, you will find this picture above where I neither laugh nor smile. Whether it is physical pain that can be tormenting or personal struggles in private life, there is a time to laugh and a time to weep, a time to mourn and a time to dance as the Book of Ecclesiastes says (Eccl 3:4-5 ESV).
(1) If you’re interested in my testimony, I wrote several blog posts on “My Testimony“, however, this one is the longest and the most fundamental. If you like, confer https://enteringthepromisedland.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/my-testimony/. And here is a longer part 2 I would add much later https://enteringthepromisedland.wordpress.com/2020/03/10/my-testimony-part-2/.
(2) For your interest, my other blog where I publish “My poems“ can be found here susanneschuberth.wordpress.com.
All images © 2017 Susanne Schuberth.
Susanne,
I’ve read all that you have posted so far and wanted to tell you how much I appreciate what you have shared. 🙂
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Oh, what a wonderful and encouraging comment you wrote, Deborah!! Thanks so much for taking the time to read and for letting me know your opinion.
Much love,
Susanne
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I will study your blog till now. Sandor
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Köszönöm szépen, Sándor! 🙂
[Thank you very much, Sándor!]
I have just begun following your blog, too. However, I need to admit that I will only be able to understand your English entries because my knowledge of the Hungarian language is rudimentary – at best. 😉
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Sorry. Now I start to study your blog. Sándor
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I am glad that you are interested in my blog, Sándor. I saw that you posted written articles from Michael Clark on your own blog. As you might realize while browsing his and my blog(s) – actually, Michael and I have two (including our poetry blogs) – we often write complementary blog articles. Just for info, my Hungarian brother. 😉
Love,
Susanne
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I am very glad for your contact. Few of my writings are translated into English because my English too. A young Lady helps me in this translation work because my English not too good. I translate many writings from English into Hungarian from different Authors and post them on my blog where I give in any case the original title, Author and the link in English too. On this way my visitors can reach many excellent writings in English from other Authors: A.W.Tozer, Austin Sparks and others. Sandor
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Thank you for stopping by Storyteller. — Ray
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You’re welcome, Ray. By the way, I really love your pics, you’re a great photographer, and I do know what you were speaking of regarding “creative theft” on the net. If you’re interested, I wrote a rather short post on it, springing from my own experiences with bloggers who used part of my entries or comments for their own blog posts without reference. It is really a problem that there is no common copyright on the net.
https://enteringthepromisedland.wordpress.com/2014/08/16/from-inspiration-to-plagiarism/
Blessings,
Susanne from Bavaria
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Interesting approach. 🙂 A couple of musicians found out what it costs to “borrow” from another musician… about $7 million. I’m sort of on a mission right now concerning using other’s works with no permission and no pay. I’ve been doing this for a long, long time — which accounts for anything good that springs out of my work — and I’ve never seen anything like the outright theft that has been going on for this last few years. Thank you for the kind words. Ray
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Oh my, that sounds strenuous what you have been doing for a very long time, Ray! Pheeew!!! 😮
Yes, the times are getting worse and worse, or rather, the people who feel secure because of the anonymity on the internet.
Warm regards and wishing you all the best for your future 💰
Susanne
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Hello there! I just wanted to say that you have an incredible blog, and that I find your content insightful, refreshing, and apt!
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Pheeeew! Indeed, I just found your comment two days after you had posted it – in my spam folder. No idea how it got there. 😛
Thank you very much for your kind words! 🙂
Every blessing to you,
Susanne from Bavaria ❤
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You’re very welcome! 😀
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Susanne, how did I miss commenting on your “About” page for over a year now! It is MY turn to say “Pheeeew! I have read your amazing testimony and posts and I find what you write and your story incredible, too. It is so good to be getting to know you, dear sister.”
Michael ❤
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You made me smile after a long and straining day, Michael. Thank you very much for doing so! 🙂
Wow! Amazing compliments, my dear brother. I am glad to have come to know you better through your own writings as well. You are such a blessing! ❤
Love,
Susanne
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You’re very welcome Richard.
Thank you for taking the time to check out my blog and for confirming the truth of John 3:8 as being part of your walk with the Lord, too. That was very encouraging for me to read today! 🙂 Also, thanks for sharing this link to your blog.
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Hello Susanne… Many thanks for following my blog. I will look forward to your posts. Have a nice day! Regards, Sudhir
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Many thanks to you as well, Sudhir. I loved reading your thoughts on depression on your blog. I went through bipolar depression myself and our daughter still deals with depression, too. From hence, I know…
Every blessing to you and yours,
Susanne from Bavaria
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The best healing is to let it out…and talk or write about it. If you have any posts or thoughts to share with me, let me know. I know what it means to be there to hear someone one. I wish you a lot of happiness and well being for the future.
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Oh, thank you very much, the same to you… Hmm… 🙄 checking my blog now… I wrote about the beginning of the healing of depression by Jesus in “My Testimony” … here’s an excerpt:
[Note: That was a time when Jesus was healing my bipolar disorder. As soon as I felt depressive, He made me laugh. And when my mood was flying too high into the sky, Jesus thwarted me with the fear of God. Apart from that, He had already previously cast out my paranoid anxieties in the same way as described in the Bible where our Lord had cast out demons of all kinds. The latter experience was a bit disconcerting to me since those scary demons, in fact, tried to return into their house from which they had originally come (Mt 12:43-45) for many weeks. But the Lord protected me and finally it was over. And thus I felt more and more balanced over time.]
Read more if you like here https://enteringthepromisedland.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/my-testimony/.
And I wrote about what I think to be some of the reasons that I got bipolar here https://enteringthepromisedland.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/the-burden-of-false-guilt/.
Another reason was losing our only son in 2009 that caused new depressive feelings to come back into my life. However, meanwhile God helped me to endure such painful periods and to no longer suppress my feelings and that helps a lot (although I am often still in tears…). BTW, God comforted me regarding the death of David in a supernatural way that was wonderful. If you like, read about it here under “My Story #2” https://enteringthepromisedland.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/true-fellowship-knows-no-death/.
I wish you a lot of happiness in the days ahead too, Sudhir! 🙂
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Inspiring to read your post. I am sure God has made you stronger than before. Bless you 🙂
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Thank you very much for the compliment, Sudhir, and for the likes. 🙂
Well, that is interesting. I just thought about whether I was stronger than before and I believe it is only that my faith in God that has grown since I am still as weak as can be which I do not really like. 😛 But even the apostle Paul admitted,
“For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” (2 Cor 12:10 ESV)
So, from hence, weakness seems to make some sense. 😉
Bless you, too!
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Your strength is in your writing Susanne. Think of those people who gave up and you didn’t. Think of the people whom you can inspire from now on through your blog. You give a lot of people hope to fight it out.
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Wow! I believe you were God-sent to write THIS on my blog today, Sudhir. Thank you very much for your edifying words on here.
Well, I understand people who give up and I do know that God does, too, since I have always prayed to share His heart toward all people a little. But it is so sad when someone whom we love decides to be more of a burden for others and leaves…
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I fully agree with Sudhir, dear Susanne. You have been a wonderful encouragement to so many people who have read your testimony. As you know I have read it all the way through and find you and the way you have overcome so much adversity in your life to be be so inspiring and you have given me much hope in my own life, especially the way you love all the people who write on your blog. Yes, some people are not ready to be healed of their depression and wounds as of yet, but God will get them there as He continues to work in their lives. We have to let some go into His hands and pray for them.
God bless you and may He use others like Sudhir and I to encourage you always,
Michael 🐻
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Thank you very much, my dear brother. ❤
Michael, you have been a continued encourager for me for about one and a half year now. I do not know how to express my gratefulness, both toward God who sent you into my life and toward you who keeps edifying me tremendously. ⭐
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Susanne, what a wonderful reply, dear heart! ❤ Ever since I read your testimony that was at first scattered on many different blogs on the net, and saw what hell you have gone through on this earth, God has put it in my heart to encourage you any way I can and your wonderful loving gratitude has been reward enough. I look forward to the day, Lord willing, when we can finally meet. 🐻
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I am happy to hear that you liked my response to you, dear Michael. ❤
Looking forward to that day too, my brother. 🐱
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Wow Susanne! Your legs are so long they reach the ground! These are very nice pictures, though. 😊
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Hahaha, Michael. 🙂 I would be the first person whose legs would NOT touch the ground! And I only know one exception here… Our Lord Jesus could walk on water. Alas, I still have to swim in the water on my own… 😉
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Dear Susanne, I am so sorry that you were all sick on your birthday. I hope that our Father makes it up to you by sharing His great love for you through many of His saints, me included, dear heart. ❤ Happy birthday 🐻
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Thank you very much, Michael. To be honest, I do not feel that sick today, but the trials have no end, it seems. As soon as one appears to have ended, I need to realize that I am confronted with another one.
Love in Him ❤
Susanne 🐱
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Susanne, I think that you having back to back trials is a good indicator that Father loves you VERY much and is preparing you as a beacon of His light in this darkened world. Of coarse our enemy will do all he can to interrupt this process by getting us to choose the seductions of this world. Many already are being drawn to the light you walk in, dear heart, so don’t give up, but throw yourself on our Daddy and He will lift you up out of every pitfall that Satan devises.
“No weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD and their vindication [is] from me, declares the LORD.” (Isa 54:17, ESV2011)
What a heritage we have in Christ the Son, dear heart. Let us continue to pray for and encourage one another even the more so as we see that last day approaching.
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Thank you so much for your encouraging words, dear Michael. Suffering as a sign of being loved by God is something the natural mind does not get at all since we do not like to see our childrens suffer, do we? But without willingly taking up our crosses in order to die to our old self nature (ego), we will remain shallow humnan beings without any emotional depths.
Yes, my brother, praying for one another is crucial! ⭐
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Good to meet you–God bless you abundantly!!
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Glad to meet, you, Delyn. May God bless you immensely in the days ahead!! Thanks for leaving a comment on here. 😊
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I truly love the name of your blog, as I so often think of myself as one of those murmuring Israelites! God bless you 🙂
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You were the first one who said they loved my blog’s name, Delyn. Thank you very much for your encouraging words! I too relate to the murmuring Israelites… boy, how often I complain and lament before God! I think He might have got some earache because of me meanwhile. 😀
Every blessing to you!
Love ❤
Susanne
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Oh how your words bless me today!!! Thank you for chatting with me, and relating to how we often complain and lament. I know for sure that He Never Gets Tired of Hearing from His Kids–He loves us, and wants the communication lines open always, no matter what our mood is. He tells me that He’d rather I get angry, than “go silent” on Him 🙂
I’m glad I was “first” to love your blog’s name–but surely there are many readers who do…they might be too shy to say 🙂 Every best blessing from God to you, too–<3 Delyn
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Oh, I am so happy to hear that you have been blessed by me, dear Delyn! ❤ 🙂
You are so right regarding God’s love toward His children. He is extremely patient, more than a human being could ever grasp.
I do not want to bore you, but I just found an older blog post in which I shared one of my ‘moody’ experiences with God. No worries, it is not a long entry. 😉 In case you are interested, check out this link https://enteringthepromisedland.wordpress.com/2015/01/03/he-knows-im-bad-and-i-know-it-too-wink-wink/.
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Thanks, Susanne–I’ll get over there to read later! 🙂
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You’re very welcome, Delyn. 🙂
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Susanne, I like your new gravatar picture. Such a lovely smile with those expressive eyes.
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Thank you very much for your encouraging words, dear Michael! 😊🎶⛱
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You are verrrry welcome! 🤗
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Hahaha!! XD
You’re a funny guy, Michael. Verrrrry funny, indeed! 😉
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Dear Susanne,
Today as I read my Austin-Sparks devotional, I came across this excerpt and saw how it truly fits you and your walk with our Lord and your blog…
“Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,” (Heb 6:1, ESV2011)
“All our progress for the future depends upon what we are doing with what we know NOW. So the Lord says to us, “I am with you if you are going on. And going on means putting into practice and effect all that I have said to you.” Our growing knowledge of the Lord depends entirely upon our daily obedience to the light which we have….
“So when the Lord speaks, and we bring that which He has said, and we say: “There is something to be done about this. I do not just put that into the store of my knowledge. I do not just add that to all that I know. I look to see what that requires of me in a practical way. And when I see what that means, then I get to the Lord to have that made real and living in my life.” Brethren, the people who do that will be going on. They will be [ENTERING THE PROMISED LAND – emphasis added]. They will be entering into His Rest. They will be entering into the joy of the Lord. Because that is what the Lord wants – people who take hold of everything that the Lord says, and make it practical. So the writer of the Hebrews says, “Let us go on.” In what other way can we go on? We are not on a literal journey on this earth. Our Promised Land is not somewhere on this earth, in this world. No. Christ is our Promised Land. Christ is God’s fullness of purpose for us. So, we have got to take everything that has been said to us about Christ, and put it into practical effect. That is what it means to go on. And that is what it means to have the Lord fully with us!”
You have been such an encouragement to me and many other to GO ON into maturity IN the Father and the Son. I will be forever grateful for who you are IN them. ⭐
Michael 🐻
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Dear Michael,
That was so sweet by you, thank you very much, my brother! 🙂
Actually, I read this devotional by Sparks before going to bed and I was truly wondering whether I have been going on… or not. Sometimes it feels as if I was still right at the beginning of my walk with God. But maybe, it is a good thing to feel like a little child before HIM?
I am glad you have been encouraged, dear Michael, and I cannot tell you how grateful I am to our Daddy in heaven that he lets you and me share a common walk by this spiritual fellowship He has provided for us. Thank you for being who you are! ⭐
Your sister IN Christ,
Susanne 🐱
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We know that we must become as a child to enter His kingdom, but we do grow up eventually into becoming His full sons and daughters as well. But, the more we grow up into His image, the more we see just how great our Father really is and want to be IN Him all that much more! It is a never ending quest for those who love Him. In that sense we will always be His children by comparison with plenty of room to grow and draw closer to Him with new experiences constantly to go through in His grace and love. Of exploring the depths of His love alone, there will be no end. Yes, we will receive our crowns there, but they are for casting down before Him when the angels cry out, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord!” Who can compare to His holiness and majesty?
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Well put, Michael. Thanks!
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Susanne, I love your new gravatar picture. Thanks for being my sister IN Christ, dear heart. ⭐
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Thank you for being you, my dear brother, and for your encouraging words, too. 🤗 ⛱ 🎼 🎶 🎹 🗻 😇
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And thank you for being who you are IN Him, dear heart, and all the ways you have encouraged me on this journey we share. 🗻😇
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You are most welcome, Michael. ♡☆♡
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Thank you very much for the link to my blog, dear Michael! 😇 🏞 🎼 🎶 🎹 ⛱ 😊
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I have enjoyed reading your blog and look forward to reading more!
God’s Blessings~
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Thank you very much for your kind words, Robbye. 🙂
May God bless you, too! ❤
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You are welcome.
🙂
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Susanne, I love your updated “About” page, Susanne, especially your newest pictures. ❤
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Oh, thank you, Michael! 🙂 That was sooo sweet by you! ❤ I wonder when someone later reads your comments which refer to pictures I changed pretty often on here, they might wonder what you were referring to… But that’s the way the cookie crumbles on the internet! XD
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I think I have an new favorite gravatar pic of your. 🙂
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Thanks for the compliment, Michael! 🙂
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